Closeup…

It took me awhile to come up with something for the prompt Sword, I didn’t want to draw an actual sword… I tried looking up the word to get a different meaning out of it, I looked at the Suite of Swords in Tarot Cards meanings… eventually I started looking at what others had done by looking at twitter #inktober. I saw a couple of images of a Narwhal, which was probably for the underwater prompt, but I decided that was stabby, I mean swordy, enough for me. Also I knew there was a zentangle pattern called Narwal, so it seemed like a perfect solution to pair it with Ponio…

I remembered to take photos throughout the process so you can see the line drawing and how with shading, auras, and adding that spiderweb like design, I kept making the pattern pop out more…